The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Tuesday, December 31

Hello, all!

I think this is going to go up before anyone’s in 2020; regardless, I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year! May 2020 bring us all joy in a variety of forms.

Ramble of the Day

Let’s do a low-maintenance ramble for us all, distracted with the end of a decade and all that it entails. Below is a list of movies I watched in 2019, and feel free to ask me my thoughts on them if you want (or write your own list, or ignore it — whatever suits you, really). Most of these are movies I watched for the first time in 2019, but some were rewatches. In total, it’s a list of 50 movies, though I may sneak in a few more before year’s end.

• Mary Poppins Returns, dir. Rob Marshall
• The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• Eighth Grade, dir. Bo Burnham
• Eden Lake, dir. James Watkins
• Ben is Back, dir. Peter Hedges
• Roma, dir. Alfonso Cuarón
• Paddington 2, dir. Paul King
• Ibiza: Love Drunk, dir. Alex Richanbach
• If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins
• The Wife, dir. Björn L. Runge
• Incredibles 2, dir. Brad Bird
• Cinderella, dir. Kenneth Branagh
• At Eternity’s Gate, dir. Julian Schnabel
• Avengers: Endgame, dir. Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
• The Parent Trap, dir. Nancy Meyers
• Creed II, dir. Ryan Coogler
• Walk the Line, dir. James Mangold
• Rocketman, dir. Dexter Fletcher
• Ralph Breaks the Internet, dir. Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
• Pulp Fiction, dir. Quentin Tarantino
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, dir. Quentin Tarantino
• National Treasure, dir. Jon Turteltaub
• Billy Elliot, dir. Stephen Daldry
• Robin Hood, dir. Otto Bathurst
• Yesterday, dir. Danny Boyle
• Downtown Abbey, dir. Michael Engler
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, dir. Vince Gilligan
• Triple Frontier, dir. J.C. Chandor
• The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang
• Parasite, dir. Bong Joon-ho
• Jojo Rabbit, dir. Taika Waititi
• The Irishman, dir. Martin Scorsese
• Booksmart, dir. Olivia Wilde
• Us, dir. Jordan Peele
• Marriage Story, dir. Noah Baumbach
• Crash, dir. Paul Haggis
• Hustlers, dir. Lorene Scafaria
• Harriet, dir. Kasi Lemmons
• A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, dir. John Schultz
• Cheaper by the Dozen, dir. Shawn Levy
• Ford v Ferrari, dir. James Mangold
• The Knight Before Christmas, dir. Monika Mitchell
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, dir. Marielle Heller
• Christmas Inheritance, dir. Ernie Barbarash
• Judy, dir. Rupert Goold
• Die Hard, dir. John McTiernan
• Knives Out, dir. Rian Johnson
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette, dir. Richard Linklater
• Hobbs & Shaw, dir. David Leitch
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens, dir. J.J. Abrams

I try to keep my viewing a little bit eclectic.

tl;dr: All the movies I watched in 2019 (as of December 30, 6:39p ET)

Links of the Day

Rangers say forward Alfredo Morelos was racially abused during the Old Firm derby.

A non-league match between Fisher FC and AFC Croydon was abandoned after a Croydon player racially abused the opposing team.

IFAB said VAR should not be used for “marginal” offside calls.

Roma is in discussions about selling the club to a group led by American billionaire Dan Friedkin.

Today’s longer read: the BBC’s alternative year-end awards